Improvement in portable fences



In www dem . PETERS, PHOTO-LIYHOGRAFHER. WASHINGTON D C UNITED STATESPATENT OEEICE.

JACOB REEDY, OF TOLEDO, IOWA.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 54,772, dated May 15,1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, J ACOB REEDY, of Toledo, in the county of 'Tama andState of Iowa, have invented' a new and useful Improvement in PortableFences and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, andexact description of the same, reference being had to the annexeddrawings, made part of this specification.

Figure l is a perspective view of a corner post. Fig. 2 is a sideelevation of a panel of fence. Fig. 3 is an elevation of a post for afence of the form shownin Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a section of the same. Fig.5 is an elevation of a panel of picket-fence. Fig. Gis an elevationshowing a post for such a fence, and Fig. 7 is a section of the same.

In the different gures the same letters refer to identical parts.

The posts are formed of sticks of timber and resting upon feet. Thecorner posts rest upon crosspieces C, Fig. l, arranged in the form of aGreek cross, while the middle posts, iutermediate between the corners,rest upon a single transverse piece, D, arranged'at right angles to thecourse of the fence.

As this fence is intended to stand upon the ground, posts may be usedthat have rotted off below the surface in an ordinary fence.

The mortises for receiving the ends of the plank are made of thedimensions of a crosssection of one of the planks, the boards in allcases, except where used for a corner post, being ehamfered at the ends,so that two boards may be inserted into one mortise. The lower sides ofthese mortises are beveled, so as to leave a tions in the base of themortises.

pointed projection in their center in the case of the intermediateposts, and in the corner posts they are beveled within, so as to receivea board notched as shown in Fig. 2. The boards have near their endsnotches corresponding with the notches in the posts. Thus prepared theboards, Fig. 2, or longitudinal rails of a picket-fence, as shown inFig. 5, are placed in the mortises, and so arranged that the notches inthe boards shall fit the projec The fence is thus held by its ownweight, and may be thus secured by wedges driven in above the boards.

I am, by the means described, enabled to construct a cheap, portablefence, which, as

there are no nails nor pins employed in its construction, inay bereadily erected or removed, as desired.

Having thus fully explained the nature of my improvements, what I claimas my invention, and seek to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

Constructing the posts A with a double bev eled mortisc, and the boards'B with correspondin g notches in their lower sides, the fence beingsecured by suoli notches a-nd by keys driven above the boards,substantially in the manner set forth.

In testimonywhereofl have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JACOB REEDY.

Witnesses:

ROEEETRAY, ELoN GEANGER.

